2012... why does this have so much support?

[guyy]

Whats with all the Y2K is a conspiracy bull?

Y2K wasn't some fabrication, it was a computer bug that could have been very distructive, espically in old banking systems ( my uncle made a fortune fixing those). It was addressed and fixed. If it would have been ignored very bad things would have happened to your money.
And thats just in banks where I can vouch for.

The fact that the media kept fuelling the fire after most of the major systems were fixed and that the public went a little hysterical is a diffrent matter.

Eh? I didn't say that, and I don't think anyone else did, either...I just meant that assuming the end of a calendar must be the end of the world is similar to assuming the Y2K bug would end the world, instead of just messing up some computer systems. Y2K was a real problem which was, like most other real problems, wildly exaggerated (some are wildly ignored).

The 2012 thing is the most extreme example of wild exaggeration I know of: something that would only be a problem if the Mayans still existed somehow turning into the apocalypse.

 

[jamesworkshop]

http://www.abhota.info/end6.htm

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

What I find amusing about these apocalyptic scenarios claiming our world with come to an end on a specific date is it would appear as if they expect something to be done in order to prevent this previously unforeseen doom. If the world truly were to end by it by mass disease or demonic invasion; there is not at all a thing we could do to cease it from happening.

Of course the merely contemplation is laughable; I suppose to be safe we might want to avoid new virus/cure studies during December of 2012 otherwise Zombie apocalypse!

 

[Alphavillain]

I'm not going to post on this forum. You never know when the giant 8 foot lizards are l.i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. Oh...

 

[ZeeAk]

It gained credibility because of th accuracy of the Mayan calendar.

Sure, they didn't now where the sun went at night, but they were off by 2 seconds in calculations related to the rotation of the moon.

 

[742]

well the maya had some pretty precise shit for the instuments they used. just because a soceity is primitive in some ways doesnt mean they are inferior in every way, they probably had some good shit going on. a few centuries later we have exceed NEARLY all of it, but holy crap.

sure, maybe something cool is going to happen in 2012, maybe were all going to die, maybe were all going to die but its going to be really cool, or maybe its just going to be another year of paranoid conspiracies. whatever happens, its likely to be fun.

 

[the protaginist]

So i'm reading more and more about 2012,and the apocalypse or elevation that will happen in the year.My question is...why? Why do i keep hearing about this? i mean,the whole thing started with the Tribes of what is now south america. But these were people who didn't know where the sun went at night.how did this gain so much credibility?

Think of this as an ultimate Reality Show. In last episode the world faced the threat of Y2K just to find out that it was a complete rubbish (although anyone who can use a computer could've told you that). On this episode - 2012, will the world end? Will Obama stay in white house? Will general public still be a bunch of ignorant sheeps? Tune in to find out, only on Earth! the reality show.

EDIT: Wasn't there a South Park episode like that?

I believe there was.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Y2K wasn't some fabrication, it was a computer bug that could have been very distructive, espically in old banking systems

actually it was mostly in old dos systems, unix for the most part doesn't have this issue or more accurately has a very different issue but more than enough time to fix it

as for the 2012 thing simply put the long count calendar is going from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0

and that's what all the hubbub is over, everyone is trying to make it into some doomsday scenario, much like we've done every time the "new millennium" starts on the 00 year, tho really it starts on the 01 year. the 00 year is the end of the old one

 

[squiggothhunter]

I know the media would jump on an apocalypse warning if a crackhead bumped into a producer on the streets and said an angel told him the world would end in 5 months, but the Mayans have an ounce more credibility because there entire civilization vanish overnight?

 

[Undead Dragon King]

I believe it was Einstein who said "I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought wih sticks and stones."

And Super Mutants. And Railspike guns. And Rads.

I'm going to play Fallout 3 now.

 

[RetiarySword]

The only reason you keep hearing about this crap is because people, like you keep bringing it up! Just STFU about it and it will go away, let the people who beleive in this crap 'prepare' and continue with your life!

 

[fix-the-spade]

Because London will be holding the Olympic games and I intend to be taking part*...


*If I qualify for the Olympics, the Universe will probably contract to a single point.

 

[runtheplacered]

Hurry up and buy your ticket to a vault, today!

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Zombies I tell you! The undead corpses will rise from their graves on December 31, 2012, and as they rise, a new age of the earth will begin, the age of the Living Dead!!!! The End is near I tell you!! Zombies are coming!! Beware!!

 

[Amnestic]

Hurry up and buy your ticket to a vault, today!

Fool. You don't buy tickets to the vaults, you buy the rights to the construction land. Free access and you make a killing on the land.

 

[asiepshtain]

Y2K wasn't some fabrication, it was a computer bug that could have been very distructive, espically in old banking systems

actually it was mostly in old dos systems, unix for the most part doesn't have this issue or more accurately has a very different issue but more than enough time to fix it

Who said the banks in question were running on unix?

 

[Caliostro]

So i'm reading more and more about 2012,and the apocalypse or elevation that will happen in the year.My question is...why? Why do i keep hearing about this? i mean,the whole thing started with the Tribes of what is now south america. But these were people who didn't know where the sun went at night.how did this gain so much credibility?

Half the world claims they can talk/see/hear some invisible almighty being that controls everything and this somehow surprises you?

 

[Amnestic]

So i'm reading more and more about 2012,and the apocalypse or elevation that will happen in the year.My question is...why? Why do i keep hearing about this? i mean,the whole thing started with the Tribes of what is now south america. But these were people who didn't know where the sun went at night.how did this gain so much credibility?

Half the world claims they can talk/see/hear some invisible almighty being that controls everything and this somehow surprises you?

Are we making digs at Christianity now? Awesome. Got just the picture for this too!

Spoiler: Image clicky.

 

[Caliostro]

So i'm reading more and more about 2012,and the apocalypse or elevation that will happen in the year.My question is...why? Why do i keep hearing about this? i mean,the whole thing started with the Tribes of what is now south america. But these were people who didn't know where the sun went at night.how did this gain so much credibility?

Half the world claims they can talk/see/hear some invisible almighty being that controls everything and this somehow surprises you?

Are we making digs at Christianity now? Awesome. Got just the picture for this too!

Spoiler: Image clicky.

eheh... I love that picture... Old as the internet, but awesome nonetheless.


But yeah, my intent wasn't to take a stab at religions (for once) but merely to state that logically, if people are willing to believe something like that, believing the world will end every other century doesn't really seem that farfetched in comparison...